Regina Spektor Quotes

Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

The only journey is the one within.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice.

I think I'm a bit of a loner, and actually quite enjoy alone time; friends become people you want to actually spend time with rather than people who are just in your life. I think it's a nice place to be.

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.